the most important question of the year ...

danr

in The Great Escape, right, why DOES steve mcqueen - on the bike, dressed as a german - kick the side of that barn?

Eh? EH?

Joao Sapiro

BECAUSE HE HATES BARNS WHAT ELSE LOL

Mark Dygert

Its a well known fact that Germans of that time hated barns, he was staying in character.

danr

Nah - If he was really staying in nazi character, he would have used his fluent german and shown his forged pass when that guard asked for it, rather than booting him in the chest and legging it

I won't rest until the truth is out. Its been bugging me for years. Time to do something about it. Oh yes

Psyk0

Probably to shake the dirt off his boots.

HonkyPunch

I dunno, steve mcqueen never came across as one to indulge himself in sudden outbursts of violence against barns. But I've been wrong before...

pliang

He stepped on something?

Nate Broach

just play the game to find out

Joshua Stubbles

omg that looks like Steve's adult head is a on a boy body with man hands...

As for the barn, maybe he was checking to see if it was sturdy? Either to hide in a gunfight, or because he was a carpenter?...

Gmanx

Well.. obviously he's determining whether it will give him any cover against incoming fire if needed.. and he decides that it won't.

Or he's stamping on a butterfly which has just set down there, because it's a German butterfly.

Chunkey

I've just talked to my bro about this who wore out a VHS copy of the movie and he reckons it's because the barn was locked.

Then again he did convince me when I was younger that Steve steve buscemi was pronounced Boosk-ah-meeni.... bearing in mind I'd never seen his name in text, which is my defence